GRE Word List
ENDEMIC
belonging or native to a particular people or country
The meaning of the word endemic is belonging or native to a particular people or country.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| sophist | philosopher |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |